> > a diff of 1 between oldest and next...
> > Now lets do some sums
> > April 14 to Nov 15 last year = 150 days
> > therefore 7200 transactions per day
> > is that high? is that low? - high to some, low to others, very low
> to yet
> > others.
> > 5 Transaction per minute
> > Lets dream up a very heavy website
> > 50 Transactions per second (can your CPU and HD handle it?)
> > 4 million Transactions per day
> > Total available
> > 2,147,483,648
> > = 536 days
> > Not long at this rate....
>
> A bit more, I think it is unsigned (or at least the book refers to it
> as a 4GB limit, so make that ~1000 days)

so are we saying that the transaction IDs start at the negative extreme?
that's unusual..
Alan